Triumph Of Galatea Research Paper

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino also known as Raphael Santi was an Italian painter and architect of the high renaissance. He was orphaned at the age of 12 and became the apprentice to Perugino, with whom he worked. His works is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human appearance. Raphael was also a designer. His father who was also a painter, taught Raphael the principles of technique. The Triumph of Galatea was one of the many works Raphael painted. The inspiration that sparked Raphael to paint the Triumph of Galatea was the painting “Stanze per la giostra” by poet Angelo Poliziano. In the Triumph of Galatea, there are small figures that are portrayed as cupids (putti) aiming with a cupids …show more content…

Galatea rides the waves on a seashell chariot drawn by two dolphins.Galatea is looking at the heavens with an innocent expression that advocates she’s not aware of all the lusty goings on about her. Tritons (attendant ocean spirits) trumpet Galatea’s transformation on their seashell horn. Raphael had accomplished the perfect and harmonious composition of his freely moving figures. Raphael painted this piece celebrating the European embrace of the classical Greek imagination for a wall in the Villa. “In the painting, sea nymph Galatea is surrounded by sea creatures whose forms are inspired by Michelangelo”. The use of bright colors and decorations were inspired by ancient Roman painting. Italian writer said, “Raphael did not mean for Galatea to resemble any one person, but rather to represent ideal beauty. That being said, it appears that Raphael abandoned the old portrayal of nature and instead used an imagined type of regularly beauty demonstrating that the normal human body is beautiful.”There are many things about this painting

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